If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about the go to statement. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.